Weight Loss Photo That Sparked Controversy Will Appear in Magazine

Brooke Birmingham will be featured in "Shape" magazine after all.

It's been a few days since weight loss blogger Brooke Birmingham's story of being asked to cover up for a bikini "after" shot in Shape magazine blew up the Internet — and it looks like she'll be posing for the magazine after all. Birmingham and Shape editor-at-large Bahar Takhtehchian appeared on the TODAY show to discuss the misunderstanding and their plans for a future photo shoot highlighting the reality of major — and natural — weight loss (via TODAY).

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Takhtehchian insisted that it was all the fault of the freelance writer who was penning the piece on Birmingham: "Unfortunately, [the writer] said there was an editorial policy that simply doesn't exist. That's where things went awry a little bit." (It's worth noting, however, that in the writer's emails to Birmingham, she says she's just the middleman for the editor who asked for an alternate photo.)

On the bright side, this has inspired Takhtehchian to tap five real women who have lost a significant amount of weight to pose for Shape, Birmingham among them. "We want to start a larger discussion about what happens after you lose a significant amount of weight," said Takhtehchian. "Because truly, there is a journey after the weight-loss journey, and those are the questions and the issues that we want to talk to Brooke and the other ladies about."